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- Sun Jul 29, 2018 3:57 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Nagarjuna in China
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6568
Re: Nagarjuna in China
This one has been on my to do list for a very long time, and I likely won't get to it soon, but I look forward to your thoughts!
- Fri Jul 20, 2018 2:30 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Immutable Nature of the Primordial State
- Replies: 68
- Views: 12709
Re: Immutable Nature of the Primordial State
"Primordial state" is how ChNN translates the term "gzhi." "Gzhi" simply refer to something we have not realized. If there is some real primordial state, then how does it exist, in whom does it exist, and in what way does it exist, without falling into the four extreme...
- Sat Mar 24, 2018 7:28 pm
- Forum: Rinzai
- Topic: Meido Moore Interview
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7054
Re: Meido Moore Interview
Very nice, thank you for sharing this
- Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:11 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The Unbearable Lightness of Anatman
- Replies: 212
- Views: 32073
Re: The Unbearable Lightness of Anatman
- Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:20 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The Unbearable Lightness of Anatman
- Replies: 212
- Views: 32073
Re: The Unbearable Lightness of Anatman
This may be relevant here: I always recall a radio interview I translated for Kalu Rinpoche, my teacher, in Canada, in which the interviewer started off with the question: “Rinpoche, what is the meaning of life?” And I tried to translate this, and I quickly wound up tied up in knots because I could...
- Sun Feb 18, 2018 4:05 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The Unbearable Lightness of Anatman
- Replies: 212
- Views: 32073
Re: The Unbearable Lightness of Anatman
What about falling into the trap of extreme views? The argument that life has no meaning seems to fall into one of the two extreme views: nihilism. that life's meaning is relative and subjective is not to say it has no meaning. It has many meanings, perhaps. Life has no meaning because life by defi...
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 11:48 pm
- Forum: Zen
- Topic: Pure Land teachings from a Zen perspective
- Replies: 142
- Views: 39090
Re: Pure Land teachings from a Zen perspective
The old woman most certainly had formal training. That is, she received guidance from Hakuin and put it into practice. "Formal training" simply means that one enters into relationship with a teacher, and does what one is directed to do...it is nothing more or less than this. If you are tr...
- Sat Jan 20, 2018 8:17 pm
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: The Aro Authenticity Debate.
- Replies: 484
- Views: 90718
- Wed Jan 17, 2018 5:33 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Is the new "Spread Mind" philosophy actually Buddhism?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2745
Re: Is the new "Spread Mind" philosophy actually Buddhism?
I dunno but I love it. PS: His trip reminds me of Douglas Harding. For however carefully I attend, I fail to find here even so much as a blank screen on which they are reflected, or a transparent lens or aperture through which they are viewed – still less a soul or a mind to which they are presente...
- Sun Jan 14, 2018 3:23 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: ChNN on presence
- Replies: 72
- Views: 15602
Re: ChNN on presence
In addition, the commentary on the Lanka states unequivocally that joy and bliss refer respectively to physical and mental bliss, as does the commentary on the Dasabhumika Sūtra, as does the commentary on the Abhidharmasammucaya, and as does Abhayakaragupta's Marmakaumudī. There are other Mahāyāna ...
- Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:53 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: ChNN on presence
- Replies: 72
- Views: 15602
Re: ChNN on presence
So I think what they're asking is, is this "hard jhana" with a concomitant black out at the five senses and lose of body awareness the kind of first dhyana that Rongzom is advocating? I think the Dārṣṭāntika (Sautrantika) opinion is the best. See the Abhidharmakośabhāṣyam, vol. 4 pp. 1229...
- Sat Jan 13, 2018 7:32 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: ChNN on presence
- Replies: 72
- Views: 15602
Re: ChNN on presence
... Perhaps part of what Marc and MiphamFan were getting at is the nature of the first dhyana as described by "hard jhana" Theravadins and Alan Wallace, (and the visuddhimagga): The five "external" senses cease, one cannot hear sounds, etc and there is no experience of the body ...
- Sun Jan 07, 2018 9:36 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Shamatha/shine
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2927
Re: Shamatha/shine
What is the difference between watching ones breath and using external object (like A for example) as ChNN teaches it? Is the method of ChNN faster to bring some realization of shine? Or is there no difference and it depends on persons capacity etc what is more suitable for them? What Vasana said. ...
- Sun Jan 07, 2018 2:29 am
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Footage
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1062
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Footage
Apologies if this has been posted before, but I think I'm in love...
- Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:38 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The Unbearable Lightness of Anatman
- Replies: 212
- Views: 32073
Re: The Unbearable Lightness of Anatman
It ends with the premise. In fact its over before the premise. Provisional meaning is possible. But it's, you know, provisional. Have you been buzzing around here all this time and missed the whole Madhyamika thing? Just to make sure I'm understanding you correctly: Are you saying the Madhyamaka re...
- Mon Jan 01, 2018 8:00 pm
- Forum: Ethical Conduct
- Topic: "Objectivity" and objective moral values
- Replies: 51
- Views: 13345
Re: "Objectivity" and objective moral values
:good: This is a topic that interests me in terms of intellectual history. One issue underlying your post, is that the very principle of 'objectivity' as a criterion for truth is of pretty recent vintage. I don't think it was until around 17th century Europe that the principle of objectivity was eve...
- Tue Dec 12, 2017 4:00 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet and Fitness
- Topic: You Know You've Been on Dharma Wheel Too Long When...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6385
- Tue Dec 12, 2017 12:37 am
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Is there Buddhism without rebirth?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 12858
Re: Is there Buddhism without rebirth?
Sketch of a Proof of Rebirth*** Now that is one hell of an argument for rebirth. It's an example of how much you can get done if you use phenomenology to bracket everything which falls outside experience. Agreed! I think I mispoke earlier with respect to the similarities between the two arguments. ...
- Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:07 pm
- Forum: Media
- Topic: Is there Buddhism without rebirth?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 12858
Re: Is there Buddhism without rebirth?
In other words, acceptance of rebirth by that practitioner is not the result of a reasoning process. The old Dharmakīrti heuristic All conditioned things have causes. Mind, being conditioned, has a cause. If mind has a material cause it must come from the body. If mind does not have a material caus...
- Sat Dec 09, 2017 7:40 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: The Need for Enlightenment
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1931